1364 
Depth 13 1/5 to 18, 5 4/5 to 6 7/8 to anal; head 7 
4/5 In total, 3 2/5 to anal, width 3 3/5. Snout to eye 2 1/3 
in head; orbit 4 7/8 to 5; eye 7 to 7 4/5, 3 1/4 to 3 2/5 in 
snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary from snout tip 
reaches 4/5 or to orbit, length 2 1/8 to 3 in head; teeth in 
villiform bands in jaws, on palatines bands little narrower 
and closely approximated in front; interorbital 7 to 8, low, 
very slightly convex. Gill rakers 2 + 9, short points, 
equal gill filaments or 2 1/2 in eye. 
Scales 60 in lateral line to vent, not especially en¬ 
larged; 16 above, 4 below. Snout, head above and postocular 
scaly. Fins scaly. Scales caducous, most all fallen. 
D. I or II, 8, I to 10, I, first branched ray 2 to 2 1/8 
in head, origin at first eighth between ventral and anal 
origins; A. 188, longest front ray 2 3/4 in head; tail tapers 
into long slender filament; pectoral 1 2/3 to 2; ventral 2 1/2 
to 3 # 
Nearly uniform brownish. Under surface of head usually 
pale. Iris grayish. Inside mouth and gill opening blackish. 
Lower sides of head whitish. Fins uniform pale brown. 
Atlantic Ocean. 
